Lore and Order: Learning from the Ancients

The Koornwinder Convention, Amsterdam, June 22,
2010
Ancient Wisdom and 21st Century ICT: Decoding the Hidden Structure
of the Universe

by Geoff Ward

Every time I drive to and from Bristol International Airport from
my home in Somerset, I pass the Stanton Drew stone circles, three
impressive rings by the River Chew which are older than the
Pyramids, Stonehenge or Avebury

Stanton Drew stone circles.
The largest stone circle is the Great Circle, 113 m in
diameter and the second largest stone circle in Britain (after
Avebury). The Great Circle probably consisted of 30 stones, of
which 27 survive today, and was surrounded by the ditch
(approximately 135m outer diameter - now filled in) of a henge.
The North East Circle is 30 m in diameter and probably consisted
of 10 or more stones, of which 9 are individually recognisable.
The South West Circle is 40 m in diameter, and probably had more
stones than the North East Circle, as it is larger in size.
[This is a file from the
Wikimedia Commons.]

The time-worn but venerable megaliths in the fields across the
river stand in silent testimony to the arcane and ancient science of
their builders who may well have been the pioneers of henge-building
in prehistoric Britain.

Thus, setting out at the 2010 summer solstice for the
international Koornwinder Convention in Amsterdam (and returning
from it a few days later), the question of the valuable recovery of
this lost science in the present day, and the prospect of an ancient
lore to learn and live by, was renewing itself with an optimistic
vigour.

For Herma Koornwinder’s prestigious event in the Dutch capital
was a meeting of minds inspired by that knowledge and wisdom of the
ancient world which is subtly reasserting itself today through the
work of many dedicated researchers, authors and conference and other
media, particularly in the fields of astro-archaeology and
prehistoric geometry and measure. It is just as if the times require
it, as if the world now needs to look to its distant past to
navigate the way into its uncertain future.

The Koornwinder Convention, however, was unique in its origins
which lay, remarkably, in the realm of stock market analysis where
Herma, through the use of information and communication technologies
(ICT), had identified forces and patterns in the movements of share
prices which she later found reflected in her dowsing of earth
energies at sacred sites around the world.

Herma Koornwinder with her dowsing rods;
in the Egyptian desert [top photo],
and in a Wiltshire crop circle [ bottom photo].

These energies and patterns, she discovered, are evidence of a
hidden structure or order to the universe founded on number,
geometry and proportion, a self-organising principle of creation
which helped her to predict accurately and consistently the rises
and falls of stock markets over a ten-year period in the 1980s and
1990s.

At the convention, Herma called for
fundamental change in the banking and investment industries, asserting
that the 21st-century methods for analysing trends in stock markets would,
for example, help to restore the losses in pension funds suffered in the
financial crises of recent years, and lead to much better risk management
of assets.

In a dramatic illustration, Herma showed a series of graphs revealing
how individual stock markets around the world fell cascade-like during the
six months prior to September 2001, suddenly plummeting on the 10th - the
day before the attacks on the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center and on
the Pentagon. ‘Share prices are the result of human behaviour and their
behaviour creates patterns that show up in graphs,’ she said. ‘It was as
if the markets knew!’

Of course, when the idea of the ancient wisdom meets modern
sensibilities, there will be incredulity before acceptance among many, but
Herma’s crucial cross-disciplinary work will help to raise consciousness
and, hopefully, free this inevitable cultural log-jam. As a result of her
conference, new energies have been brought to the quest, new connections
and correspondences have been revealed, and there will be new avenues of
research to explore for all involved.

The event was the first major move in Herma’s mission to bridge the
academic and the spiritual spheres - and the importance of her friendship
with the Egyptian Sufi healer Mahmoud Eissa, co-producer of her film
documentaries, emerged strongly from the proceedings. Here was a key
confluence of Western rationalism and Eastern mysticism, of the
intellectual and the intuitive, and the harmonising of the domains of the
left and right brain.

And moving assuredly behind the conference was the spirit of the
Ancient Egyptian goddess Seshat, the deity of communication, of knowledge
and wisdom, writing and learning, mathematics and measurement, history and
astronomy, all essential aspects of the Koornwinder Convention.

I see Herma’s project as involving an attempt to unite scientific
thinking and alternative traditions to suggest the possibility of a much
wider and more radical science emerging from the two areas; indeed, to
suggest that we might have had such a science, working to a completely
different set of principles, available to us for thousands of years, but
which were made inaccessible to us by historical events.

The common ground of all the convention speakers, as Mahmoud Eissa
indicated at the outset, was how contemporary research was recovering the
ancient wisdom at an increasing pace, how it was now being received both
academically and spiritually. ‘When I met Herma, she projected the
academic side,’ he said, ‘When she asks questions, I can give many answers
from my inner knowing. We have to work hard together to receive more of
these gifts from God.’

Ahmed Mahmoud, scholar and tour guide, spoke of his own new research
into the symbolism of Seshat whose divine arts may well have included
dowsing to establish the most auspicious locations and layouts for the
temples of Ancient Egypt. ‘When Herma first told me about dowsing, I
didn’t believe in it,’ said Ahmed. However, after seeing Herma dowsing in
the Tutankhamun exhibition at the Cairo Museum he realised, following a
year of research on the subject, that the goddess Seshat could have been
connected with dowsing, ‘possibly described by a different name and using
different methods or tools’.

World mysteries investigator Bert Janssen, who acted as master of
ceremonies as well as being a speaker at the conference, sounded the
keynote of the occasion with his view that the event was responding to a
need to see ‘the big picture’ - what I would interpret, in this context,
as a re-creation of philosophy in the ancient sense of the term, that way
of stepping back from the ‘close-up’ everyday position and finding a
noumenal pattern in the structures of our universe.

Christopher Knight and Alan Butler, co-authors of Before the Pyramids: Cracking
Archaeology’s Greatest Mystery, revealed how ancient
knowledge - specifically, in this instance, comprising the measure and
geometry used at prehistoric sites in Britain and at the Giza Pyramids -
was embodied in the layout of Washington DC when the capital city was
founded 200 years ago, and how it has continued to be deployed there down
to the present day, under the guardianship of freemasonry.

Robert Bauval and Thomas Brophy, whose collaborative book Black
Genesis will be published in March 2011, explained how the origins
of pharaonic civilization lay with a black African prehistoric people in
the Egyptian Sahara whose geometrically arranged stone circles at Nabta
Playa must be, at 7,000BC, among the world’s earliest examples of
astronomically aligned monuments. One complex seems to be a map of the
Milky Way galaxy, another, a map of the Andromeda galaxy, and yet another,
a star-viewing platform.

Leaning towards the occult, Hermetic and Gnostic traditions in
attempting to uncover hidden links and threads within the living universe,
to which sacred geometry, art and writings point throughout human history,
I spoke of how the significance of the ubiquitous spiral form and
pattern in nature was recognised in
prehistory. The spiral is evidence of a universal organising principle or
force at work behind the scenes of our ‘normal’ day-to-day perceptions;
for me, crucially, it represents the trajectory of consciousness, the
shape of time and the pattern of spiritual growth.

In her closing address to the conference, Herma announced that there
would be a further five documentary films to introduce other authors and
researchers in the field of ancient knowledge to a broader audience and to
combat scepticism in the wider world. There was a need for specialists to
work together and learn from one another. Her reading and research over
the past ten years had brought her to a higher level of understanding
about the way the universe worked.

She described how her use of ICT for stock market analysis, and dowsing
rods for the detection of leys and ‘points of power’ at ancient sites and
in Washington DC, had revealed a common energy in number sequences and the
same patterns and lines of force - whether in share prices or at stone
circles, crop circles, pyramids, tombs, temples, monasteries or mosques.
Dowsing had been used by ancient cultures and was part of a special system
of worldwide knowledge which embraced the use of energy lines and points
of power.

‘People from all over the world should unite and bring together their
shapes and forms in geometry to create a universal database,’ she said.
‘The scientific community could play a fundamental and invaluable role in
establishing scientific proof of our findings by re-introducing new
aspects and approaches into science - with the help of ancient knowledge
and wisdom.

‘Ancient wise men knew about the system of number and measure and
weight in the universe. I strongly pledge to re-introduce this knowledge
in our daily lives towards more respect for nature and more
sustainability, in an approach to life both on a personal and political
level.

‘Let us do away with the old systems and the old investment models.
They have had their time and must be superseded in the light of all the
disasters that we have been experiencing in the recent past, without an
end in sight. Our economic and financial systems must become more reliable
and work for everyone rather than only for the very few who are able to
speculate on the movements of the market. Let's pay heed to everyone's
interest.

‘Interference with worldwide eco-systems for the sake of economic
interests the world over must be thoroughly reconsidered if we want to
provide a livelihood for our children.’

A New Vision That Could Change the World

ANCIENT WISDOM & 21ST CENTURY ICT: DECODING THE HIDDEN
STRUCTURE OF THE UNIVERSE

The
Koornwinder Convention – Amsterdam, June 22, 2010

Herma
Koornwinder’s discovery of hidden patterns which enabled her to predict
accurately the movements of financial markets was to change her life
utterly.

She
came to realise that these patterns reflected an underlying order in the
universe of which life on Earth was an inseparable part - and now she’s
ready to reveal her remarkable findings to the world at the international
KOORNWINDER CONVENTION in Amsterdam on June 22, 2010.

The
speakers at the convention, which will be conducted in English, are:

Robert Bauval:
Researcher and author (The Orion Mystery, Black Genesis)

Thomas Brophy:
former NASA physicist,
astrophysicist and author (The Origin Map and Black Genesis
with Robert Bauval)

Bert
Janssen:
Researcher and author (The Hypnotic Power of Crop Circles)

Mahmoud Eissa:
Egyptian tour guide, and spiritual mentor and co-producer of the film
documentary series The Lost Science

Ahmed Mahmoud:
Egyptian tour guide and historian

Herma Koornwinder:
Researcher and producer of The Lost Science

The KOORNWINDER CONVENTION is an event that will be of particular
interest to the scientific community as well as the financial industry,
economists, architects and philosophers. It’s hoped that everyone
attending will
gain important new insights into an invisible world and our special place
in the universe.

As an
outstandingly successful global analyst in the 1980s and 1990s, Herma -
self-taught in stock market analysis and information technology
- detected
meaningful patterns underlying the performance of markets, a kind of
‘intelligent design’, as she called it.

This
enabled her to predict, among other major financial events, the Black
Monday crash of October 1987, using her own system of stock price
analysis.
She
says it is a common mistake that analysts focus too much on graphs that
concern only equity price developments, and this easily gives them wrong
ideas.

Herma
was hailed in the Dutch media as a ‘stock market guru’, and ‘the
most outstanding stock market analyst of the Netherlands’. Combining
telematics, information science and data communication, her success lay in
her interpretation of what she now regards as an ‘ancient language’ and,
since April of last year, she has been on a whirlwind mission across three
continents making an epic series of film documentaries showing how this
‘language’ was known to ancient civilizations.

The
films show how the language is being recognised again today, for example,
in the symbolism of the layouts of major cities, including Washington DC,
the evidence for prehistoric geometry, the detection of ‘earth energies’
and in the patterns of crop circles.

Herma
says the universal order is based on number, geometry and proportion and,
although traceable in the ideas of thinkers such as Plato, Aristotle,
Archimedes and Pythagoras, it has been largely lost to us over millennia.

The
KOORNWINDER CONVENTION will show extracts from the documentaries,
which have been made with an accomplished Egyptian film crew. Herma will
explain how the rediscovered language and the systems that reflect it,
including her method of market
analysis, can be used to empower people to bring about beneficial change,
both social and
economic, throughout the world in terms of crisis avoidance and
environmentally harmonious living.
At
the same time, a website will be launched, to promote and spread Herma’s
vision, with a forum to follow later.

‘The universal system of measure and order determines life on this planet
in many different ways – it is omnipresent and too complex for us to
dismiss!’ she says. ‘It can be applied to all aspects of our lives.
Moreover, it has been known for thousands of years. Can we somehow
re-introduce it to our modern lifestyle? Let us hope so, as it will bring
a major change to our world.
Would it not be
wonderful if we could all live in harmony according to this system of
order, rather than against it, and in the process destroying our planet
and ending our own livelihoods?

‘The ancient sacred science now being rediscovered needs to be accepted
today. It is everybody’s fundamental right to know about it. Sacred
science became secret science but it must become the science for
everybody. The unknown must be made known.’

The
book of nature is written in the language of mathematics, and its
characters are triangles, circles and other geometric figures without
which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it.
Galileo

ABOUT HERMA KOORNWINDER

During
her eight years as a professional analyst at the Dutch stock exchange,
from 1989-1997, Herma Koornwinder was proved right
in 90 per cent of
her assessments of
global stock markets.In
her research in the field, she had questioned many accepted ‘truths’ and,
through her exploration of knowledge technology, had seen a complex
network of relations between the different parts of the world financial
market as a whole.

She
found that worldwide patterns determined price developments and, as a
consequence, the global economy, when the financial world at large assumed
that price developments occurred randomly.* As well as Black Monday, Herma
anticipated correctly the rise of international share prices in 1988, the
drop preceding the 1990 Gulf crisis, the recovery of prices in January
1991, and the 1993 rise in prices and the stock market correction in 1994.
The success of her methods between 1989 and 1994 was verified by an
independent accountancy firm, Deloitte & Touche.**

In July 1995,
Herma presented an extract from the Deloitte & Touche report, with its
positive evaluation of her investment advice, to the chairman of the Dutch
Stock Exchange, Baron van Ittersum.Her predictive strategies were
developed under the aegis of her consultancy, Koornwinder Global Market
Navigation (KGMN), which she launched in 1990 to promote her vision while
she worked as an advisor for retirement funds of companies such as Shell
and Brenca, and insurance company Zwitserleven.
KGMN was one of the first ventures in the area of investment innovation on
the electronic highway.

In
2000, Herma began to undertake personal research.
‘Through the shapes and patterns that determine the behaviour of financial
markets, I discovered an underlying order of universal magnitude for which
I had no logical explanation,’ she said. ‘The impact of this finding was
so great that I felt the need for further study of this phenomenon. I
studied comparative religion, different cultures, philosophy, psychology,
ancient science, and so on, and I read many hundreds of books on these
subjects. It felt like an exciting discovery tour.’

In
2008, there was another important happening. This was Herma’s first
encounter with the strange ‘earth energies’ associated with the art of
dowsing - a skill she never knew she had until she visited England that
summer. A chance meeting with the Dutch crop circles investigator Janet
Ossebaard led Herma to visit Wiltshire to see these mysterious formations
for herself and, while there, she was given a pair of dowsing rods to try
out.

She
said: ‘Despite my initial reluctance, I tried out the rods and was
flabbergasted when I recognized that the movement of the rods was the same
as I had noticed in my work with lines in number sequences which gave the
spark for my search for an underlying system of order. And who could have
expected me to find it in the crop circles? I felt the same force in crop
circles that I had noticed in the sequences of numbers.’

Herma
now believes that the system of earth energies, and the ‘points of power’,
or energy centres, which they generate in the landscape, points the way
toward ‘a more natural and responsible resourcefulness that will allow us
to live in natural, ecological and economic harmony on this planet. It
offers an alternative source for energy supplies, derived from points of
power, and an alternative approach to stock market analysis and
architecture’.

Herma
is living proof that, no matter how old you are, life can become an
exhilarating journey of discovery, not only of the world but of oneself.
How she turned from being a high-flying global market analyst into a
passionate advocate of ancient science and philosophy, as well as a
ground-breaking film-maker with an urgent message for the world, is an
extraordinary story.

*
The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events
do not happen in an arbitrary manner but that they reflect a certain
underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired. Stephen
Hawking

** Out
of 23 trend predictions of various stock markets delivered by KGMN over
the period 1989 to 1994, 22 were confirmed by later events. Out of seven
equity portfolios composed by KGMN, six performed better than the
corresponding stock market index; one scored equal. On average, the KGMN
portfolios outperformed, in absolute terms, the stock market index by ten
per cent. A number of KGMN's more descriptional predictions and forecasts
are described in various publications and client reports. These were, with
rare exception, all confirmed by the course of events that followed.

THE LOST SCIENCE
SERIES – WHAT IT’S ABOUT

Herma’s
unique film project comprises five documentaries each with a runtime of
about 40 minutes. They have been made with a go-ahead Egyptian production
team, the core of which comprises co-producer Mahmoud Eissa, directors
Mostafa Youseff and Khaled El Fares, cameraman Mohamed Abdul Raouf, and
tour guides Ahmed Mahmoud and Refaat Abdelwahab.

Film 1 -
Earth Energies and Points of Power
Location: Egypt, April/May 2009

Herma and
Mahmoud Eissa introduce the ‘earth energies’ theme of the series. Herma
explains her dowsing technique, tells the surprising tale of how she came
to be a practitioner of the art, and speaks of some of her findings in
Egypt. Walking with her pair of copper rods, she dowses leys and ‘power
points’ of energy which she discovered determined the layout of ancient
monuments at Luxor, the Valley of the Kings and at Karnak – her rods spin
furiously above centres of energy. Herma also dowses for earth energies at
Sakkara, the Bahariya Oasis, the Temple of Niuserre at Abu Ghurab, and at
the Great Pyramid at Giza.

Film 2 - Crop Circles, Stock Markets and Megaliths

Location:
England, July 2009

Herma
introduces her discovery that geometrical figures, and symbols and
patterns from the art and ceremony of ancient civilisations, some often
seen in crop circles, also appear in the graphs which she produced, as a
global market analyst, showing the movements of stock prices. In
Wiltshire, the world ‘hotspot’ for crop circles, Herma examines scientific
research into the strange phenomenon, and interviews key investigators
Michael Glickman, Charles Mallett and Bert Janssen. As well as crop
circles, where energy lines and points set her rods spinning again, Herma
visits the famous prehistoric monuments of Stonehenge, Avebury and Silbury
Hill.

Film 3
- Stones, Spirals and the Hidden Order
Location: Egypt, October/November 2009

Herma
ponders the possibility of a ‘world grid’ and how its geometrical and
geomantic properties could relate to a universal order reflected in the
ancients’ positioning and design of temples and pyramids, and in the
behaviour of financial markets. She interviews Geoff Ward about his study
of the spiral form and pattern in nature and human culture – itself
evidence of a universal unifying and organising principle. The crew visit
Abu Simbel, the Bahariya Oasis, Nabta Playa in southern Egypt where
megaliths are among the earliest known archaeo-astronomical constructions,
and enter the King’s Chamber in the Great Pyramid.

Film 4
- Sacred Geometry and Washington DC

Location:
USA, March 2010

Herma
introduces the theme that the architect Pierre Charles L’Enfant, appointed
by George Washington in 1791 to design the layout of the US capital,
worked to a system of ‘sacred geometry’, as used in the planning of cities
in the ancient world. With her dowsing rods, Herma traces these patterns
- symbolically potent and related to cosmic energies - at major city
landmarks, detecting the same principles in play as at ancient sites and
in crop circles. She interviews Robert Bauval, Christopher Knight and Alan
Butler about the fascinating links between Washington DC and freemasonry
as the repository of this ancient knowledge.

Film 5 – Alexandria and the Ancient Wisdom

Location:
Egypt, March/April 2010

Continuing her mission to locate the energy lines that ancient
civilizations used in their city planning and architecture, Herma
witnesses a miracle of dowsing at Hellenic Alexandria. Her rods work not
only over land but also as Mahmoud dives to the 2,000-year-old ruins of
Cleopatra’s palace and temple complex and Pharos city, one of the world’s
richest underwater archaeological sites. Robert Bauval explains how the
ancient wisdom, including astronomical alignment of structures, integrated
humankind with the cosmos. Herma also visits old Islamic Cairo, which was
carefully planned on leys by the architect Jawhar Sakkaly (The Sicilian).

The acclaimed coauthors of the
thought-provoking Civilization One and Solomon’s
Power Brokers take readers on a gripping excursion
into ancient religion and its direct relationship to
astronomy. Thrillingly, Christopher Knight and Alan Butler
establish conclusively that even before the last ice age
an advanced civilization existed that had knowledge of
Megalithic and metric measuring systems and of the Earth’s
size—and that fragments of this culture were preserved.
They explain how the oldest, most enigmatic of the
Neolithic monuments—the henges of North Yorkshire—were
planned, what their purpose actually was, what amazing
connection they have to the later Pyramids of Giza, and
why both henges and pyramids are earthly representations
of the stars in Orion’s belt.

From rainbows, river meanders, and shadows
to spider webs, honeycombs, and the markings on animal
coats, the visible world is full of patterns that can be
described mathematically. Examining such readily
observable phenomena, this book introduces readers to the
beauty of nature as revealed by mathematics and the beauty
of mathematics as revealed in nature.
Generously illustrated, written in an informal style, and
replete with examples from everyday life, Mathematics in
Nature is an excellent and undaunting introduction to the
ideas and methods of mathematical modeling. It illustrates
how mathematics can be used to formulate and solve puzzles
observed in nature and to interpret the solutions. In the
process, it teaches such topics as the art of estimation
and the effects of scale, particularly what happens as
things get bigger. Readers will develop an understanding
of the symbiosis that exists between basic scientific
principles and their mathematical expressions as well as a
deeper appreciation for such natural phenomena as cloud
formations, halos and glories, tree heights and leaf
patterns, butterfly and moth wings, and even puddles and
mud cracks.
Developed out of a university course, this book makes an
ideal supplemental text for courses in applied mathematics
and mathematical modeling. It will also appeal to
mathematics educators and enthusiasts at all levels, and
is designed so that it can be dipped into at leisure.

Civilization One tells of the startling conclusions
that came from two scientists' quest to try to crack the
mystery of the ancient "megalithic yard" — a unit of
82.966656 centimeters used to construct thousands of
megalithic structures in Britain and France. The discovery
was an extraordinary ancient culture predating the
earliest known civilizations. The scientists of this time
derived the megalithic yard from observing the Earth's
rate of spin. The authors show how this measurement is
part of an integrated system, far more advanced than
anything used today, that forms the basis of both the
imperial and metric systems. The culture that created it
understood the dimensions, motions, and relationships of
the Earth, moon, and sun, and were able to actually
measure the solar system. The implications of these
revelations go far beyond the fascination of the discovery
of a super-science of prehistory; they indicate a grand
plan which will have far-reaching theological
ramifications.